File:Candida Alvarez Are you listening to this 2022.JPG

Painting by Candida Alvarez, Are you listening to this? (acrylic on linen, metallic marker, liquid glitter, 84" x 72", 2022). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Candida Alvarez's career in the 2020s, when she produced multivalent, mixed-media paintings that combined diverse styles, techniques, materials and allusions. In works such as the one pictured, Alvarez scanned and printed drawings on canvas, then applied successive transparent layers leaving traces that effaced and intermingled with the initial images and color areas, creating complex records of action and time. These works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Candida Alvarez. Copyright held by the artist.

Candida Alvarez

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Candida Alvarez's career in the 2010s and 2020s: her multivalent paintings combining diverse art-historical and conceptual frameworks, techniques, materials and allusions to pop culture, world events, everyday life and memories. Critics have described these works as syncretic in their process, resisting a single visual methodology and disrupting distinctions between abstraction, representation and conceptualism. The paintings are often built of successive, often transparent layers that intermingle and efface one another, creating complex records of action and time. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this later stage and body of work, which brought Alvarez continuing recognition through exhibitions in major venues and coverage by major critics and publications. Alvarez's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Candida Alvarez, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.